Black Boy - (Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions) by Richard Wright (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Celebrating the centennial of Wright's birth, each deluxe classic is a special edition with French flaps, rough fronts, and covers printed on uncoated stock.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>A special Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South--a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering</strong></p><p>When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, <em>Black Boy</em> was both praised and condemned. Orville Prescott of the <em>New York Times</em> wrote that "if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read them maybe, someday, in the fullness of time, there will be a greater understanding and a more true democracy." Yet from 1975 to 1978, <em>Black Boy</em> was banned in schools throughout the United States for "obscenity" and "instigating hatred between the races."</p><p>Wright's once controversial, now celebrated autobiography measures the raw brutality of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive as a Black boy. Enduring poverty, hunger, fear, abuse, and hatred while growing up in the woods of Mississippi, Wright lied, stole, and raged at those around him--whites indifferent, pitying, or cruel and Blacks resentful of anyone trying to rise above their circumstances. Desperate for a different way of life, he headed north, eventually arriving in Chicago, where he forged a new path and began his career as a writer. At the end of <em>Black Boy</em>, Wright sits poised with pencil in hand, determined to "hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo." More than seventy-five years later, his words continue to reverberate.</p><p>One of the great American memoirs, Wright's account is a deeply moving record of struggle and endurance--a seminal literary work that illuminates our own time.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a drunkard, hanging about taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot. </p><p><em>Black Boy</em> is Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment--a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"The publication of this new edition is not just an editorial innovation. It is a major event in American literary history."--<strong>Andrew Delbanco, <em> New Republic</em></strong><br><br>"One of the most important literary talents of contemporary America."--<em><strong>New York Times</strong></em><br><br>"A visceral and unforgettable account of a young black man's coming of age in the American south in the bitter decades before the civil rights movement."--<em><strong>Guardian</strong></em><br><br>"In this poignant and disturbing book one of the most gifted of America's younger writers turns from fiction to tell the story of his own life during the nineteen years he lived in the South."--<em><strong>New York Times</strong></em><br><br>"Superb. . . . A great American writer speaks with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives."--<em><strong>New York Times Book Review</strong></em><br>
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